PT-2007-7138 · Videolan · Vlc

Published 2007-12-05 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-6262

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC versions 0.8.6 through 0.8.6d

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," also known as a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

Recommendations For versions 0.8.6 through 0.8.6d, update to version 0.8.6d or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the addTarget, getVariable, and setVariable functions in the affected ActiveX control until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-6262

Affected Products

Vlc

References · 14

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/4688 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/26675 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6262 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27878 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420 · Note
• http://frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/4061 · Note
• http://videolan.org/sa0703.html · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280 · Note
• http://coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6262 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816 · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38816 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded · Note